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Baum, Dan.Citizen Coors. An American Dynasty.New York William Morrow 0-688-15448-4 / 9780688154486 Stated first Edition Hard Cover Dust jacket and book good+ condition. Front blank endpapers torn out, 367 pages with index. CR 2000, black and white photos in center of book.A chronicle of how Adolph Coors stowed away on a ship to America in 1868, his family and how he turned a brewery into a billion dollar beer company, through devotion to product, rejection of modern marketing and refusing to borrow as much as a nickel. The ups and downs, family dynamics, kidnapping, suicides, and murder.
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25.00 USD

Canfield, Cass.The Incredible Pierpont Morgan - Financier and Art Collector.Printed in Italy.: Harper & Row Hard Cover Hard Cover. 176 pages with bibliography notes on the 17 color plates of Pierpont's art collection. Tears to dust jacket, covers very good. CR 1974, could be a first edition. His careeer spanned from A braham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt. He was a sociable, convivial man, enjoyed life and entertained lavishly. He frightened people by his overwhelming personality and his piercing eyes, which was com pared to the headlights of an oncoming train.
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22.00 USD

Norvell, Saunders.Forty Years of Hardware.New York Hardware Age Stated first Edition Hard Cover CR 1924, illustrated by Serena Summerfield. Top page of title page torn out, 443 pages. Black and white portraits. Autobiography of a man who spent most of his life dealing in hardware (Keen Kutter Company and Simmons Hardware in Colorado). The thrill of making his first dollar, the discouragement when someone else is promoted, and the feeling of lonesomeness of place and power. Humorous and sad. Dark blue covers, all good+ condition.
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50.00 USD

Sparkes, Boyden and Moore, Samuel Taylor.The Witch of Wall Street. Hetty Green.New York Garden City Publ. First Edition Hard Cover CR 1930, 338 pages with black and white photos. Hetty Green's father was Edward Mott Robinson and was very wealthy during the Civil War. Hetty started saving her money at age 8 and it never changed as she grew older. Conversations of stocks and bonds were her education - the business of adventure. She was once the richest woman in the world worth over 100 million. Black covers with red lettering and embellishment. All good+ condition.
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68.00 USD